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A history of internet shutdowns in Africa and their impact on human rights
Africa is using WhatsApp ‘mods’ with extra features we all want
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Research: Early humans in Africa may have interbred with an unknown species
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Research: DNA pinpoints region in northern Botswana as humanity's birthplace
Where was the evolutionary birthplace of modern humans? The East African Great Rift Valley has long been the favored contender – until today. Our new research has used DNA to trace humanity’s earliest footsteps to a prehistoric wetland called Makgadikgadi-Okavango, south of ...
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The climate crisis threatens gender equality in Africa
People who directly depend on the natural world for their livelihoods, like farmers and fishers, will be among the greatest victims of the climate crisis. In vulnerable hotspots, such as the arid lands of Kenya and Ethiopia, farming communities are already struggling with droughts ...
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How smartphones get African millennials addicted to sports betting
When one talks about young Africans using smartphones, the dominant narrative is that these gadgets serve mostly as platforms for connection so that users can communicate and share greetings and information via text and images. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Signal take ...
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Why mobile access won't mend our 'digital divide' without fixed-line broadband
Mobile services have had an important and positive impact on developing countries where they are the main means of connecting to the internet. However, mobile services have capacity constraints. They use limited radio frequency spectrum, which means that mobile data typically has ...
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Data: The UN has overlooked millions of malnourished children in Africa
Four years ago the United Nations (UN) member states created a list of international development targets, known as the Sustainable Development Goals. These included 17 urgent calls for action aimed at improving the lives of people around the world. Tackling poverty and food insecurity ...
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Israeli startup combats tuberculosis with text reminders
Tuberculosis (TB) is curable and preventable. However, TB kills 1.6 million people a year (or 4,000 people a day) and is one of the top ten causes of death worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. The stigma and adhering to a treatment regime are key reasons ...
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How affordable agricultural technology is solving food insecurity in Nigeria
The global population is predicted to grow by 2 billion by 2050 and with more than half of that growth coming from Sub-Saharan Africa, addressing food insecurity has become a matter of urgency. In Africa’s most populous country, Nigeria, food insecurity is on the rise; almost ...
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Johannesburg's power supplier gets the better of ransomware attackers
A ransomware infection at City Power, one of South Africa's electricity providers, left some city residents of Johannesburg ...
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This 'factory of factories' helps hardware start-ups solve real problems in Kenya
[NAIROBI] Esther Mwangi, a 2014 graduate of economics from Kenyatta University in Kenya who wanted to venture into ...
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Facebook, Twitter and major social media sites blocked amid Liberian anti-corruption protest
Telecommunications companies and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Liberia have restricted Internet access in the country ...
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This AI tool is translating 2,000 African languages in a bid to boost local economies
A digital platform called OBTranslate that aims to translate more than 2,000 African languages to enable rural dwellers ...
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Fake Facebook accounts are influencing African elections
Facebook has issued a statement on how it removed fake accounts originating from Israel that ran Facebook Pages, Groups ...
